lol, i wouldn’t call ezmac/velveeta mac n cheese a culinary hit exactly lol. it’s just cheap and convenient, so its on the shelves and in the pantry.
its ancestral dish is a bechamel/mornay sauce based pasta that uses cheddar, so if executed with its traditional ingredients as a light roux mother sauce, its pretty badass.
but the industrial variant is cheaply powdered everything with added salt so it can sit on a shelf for years and ready to reconstitute in minutes.
And the roux version is inferior imo. I like using the sodium citrate used in boxed m&c or American style cheese, but add mozzarella or proper cheddar, a hard cheese, and milk. That shit is fantastic. The US has plenty of great relatively modern dishes but you can’t expect to get anything that does them justice off the shelf.
I once tried “american style mac & cheese” and it tased like pure salt and water. And that is supposed to be the big culinary hit?
lol, i wouldn’t call ezmac/velveeta mac n cheese a culinary hit exactly lol. it’s just cheap and convenient, so its on the shelves and in the pantry.
its ancestral dish is a bechamel/mornay sauce based pasta that uses cheddar, so if executed with its traditional ingredients as a light roux mother sauce, its pretty badass.
but the industrial variant is cheaply powdered everything with added salt so it can sit on a shelf for years and ready to reconstitute in minutes.
At my local poverty grocery store they sell off brand Velveeta… It’s labeled “cheese loaf”.
What, canned? If it’s properly made you just melt a shitload of cheddar into a roux and you’re done
not canned like pre-prepared.
EDIT: Something like this
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And the roux version is inferior imo. I like using the sodium citrate used in boxed m&c or American style cheese, but add mozzarella or proper cheddar, a hard cheese, and milk. That shit is fantastic. The US has plenty of great relatively modern dishes but you can’t expect to get anything that does them justice off the shelf.